Height of Hypocrisy

Our detractors have tainted the image of these isles with well orchestrated media blitz about perceived abuses of foreign workers and squalid living conditions.

It is only too clear why the viciousness in their agenda, including “trumped-up” reports that are at best “unverifiable” as reported by responsible federal agencies such as the Justice and US Labor Departments.

As reported in WORLD International, it was fully orchestrated to favorably support US Department of Interior’s agenda of a federal takeover of the NMI, in addition to easing competition for the US textile labor unions.

Essentially, the way to bring the NMI to its knees is through a politically blind federal takeover mindless of the fate of the local people. Denial of local self-government and granting the textile labor unions in California some breathing space against stiff competition from Little David or the NMI’s garment industry is the sole vehicle.

Today, the 22,000 sewing businesses across the US mainland have basically turned into “sweatshop” operations with far worst conditions than what had been found in the NMI, China and Latin America in recent years. Yet, the federal government, specifically, the US Department of Interior, has the audacity to persistently bash the apparel industry here by mere regurgitation of old fodder.

The persistence with which our detractors have constantly brought Lazarus back from his grave has turned the lead federal agency into a high breed ostrich by its very adolescent behavior of spreading piles of lies to ruin the image of paradise. Even more mind boggling is its purposeful neglect of its fiduciary responsibility under the terms and conditions of the Covenant to aid these isles “attain a progressively higher standard of living”.

US and OSHA officials are here daily monitoring local apparel firms and have admitted at a recent conference of manufacturers here that there’s no further need for a federal takeover. It is their personal views that the NMI’s garment industry is the safest among industries here.

Now, if the likes of Congressman George Miller of California, who hails from the capital of garment manufacturing in the West Coast, are really true in their beliefs about human rights, then it’s about time he too protects our interest. His adolescent undertakings against the NMI reflects what we’re fearful of–that freedom in
American Democracy is only as good–if and when supported by money from special interest groups. Isn’t he the supposed star of human rights? Perhaps it is just as good a time for our detractors to get a taste of their own medicine in bully pulpits and threats they have hurled against others. In other words, why are you hurling rocks at someone else’s glass house when in fact you also live in one?